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Hi all, This is a newbie question — I have never done this before. What PCI card with video-in do you recommend? It will either go in my B&W G4 or into …
I received a PB190 with a 5300C screen, very nice machine in excellent quality. It came with a NIB Lapis Ethernet/Video out combo card, specifically stamped "Fo…
Hi, I'm currently restoring a Quadra 950 which I gather has not seen use for many years. It has an Apple PPC card in the PDS slot and Apple network card. I took…
The much unloved 4400 is not super easy to get info on like some models. Its all boiler plate stuff. But I want to be sure, did the 4400 ever come with a 604e? …
I'm missing the two terminator resistors on a 1990 Maxtor 7080SR 80 mb drive. They are 11-pin SIP (? I think that's correct). Does anyone have any thoughts on p…
Hello. I recently acquired a Mac SE FDHD and am having difficulty booting up. It switches on fine but just get the flashing question mark. So I created two Syst…
I didn't knew such a LCD screen existed for the Apple IIc... But here it is, and the people are bidding like crazy! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extremely-Rare-Apple…
Yesterday I replaced the PRAM battery in my Power Macintosh G3, which I thought would be a quick procedure, but it's turned into a whole new issue. The machine …
I recently did a repair of Duo Dock which had the "click of death", as it made clicking noises when plugged in. The main culprit is the PSU, where few electroly…
And if it does work, does it then allow the machine to run at the higher speed? Seems like it maybe ought to, but it also seems like the logic board in the 520 …
Hi all, In two days of work spread over the past couple of months, a friend and I have recapped two of my Macs. I haven’t tried the Q840AV yet and if I do I wil…
Hey guys, I'm new kinda new here. I have a Color Classic that I picked up at a thrift store 10 years ago I'm working on. I got a nice fresh recapped and tested …
I just recapped an old Quadra 660AV. Before a recap, the machine was dead, no chime, no video, just fan inside PSU was working. Old caps were leaking slightly, …
I recently acquired two 8100s with blown PSUs. One had a Delta, which I also described in other topic. The second has a MagneTek PSU (Made in Italy), which is a…
I have to strategically place my PCI cards for my recording rig and the best place to put my video card was in either slot 4 or slot 5, which is the last two sl…
I have a color pivot monitor model 0356. The focus appears to be off. If I turn the brightness and contrast down, the focus seems to improve, but they are too d…
My firend picked up a lot of old Macs that were sitting in a basement for last 10 years. Mostly from the 1991-98 era, including two Power Macs 6100. I fired the…
I'm comparing the specs and these machines looks almost identical, minus the CPUs that they use. The system bus speed is the same, it has the same amount of PCI…
Hello Guys, I have a Macintosh Performa 200, it has a good power supply, Hard drive, CRT.. everything is okay with it except the logic board. The logic board ha…
This was an interesting one. When it arrived years back, it had a slight issue with a flickering image that'd drop the green out from time to time. I stored it …
Hello My powermac G4 Quicksilver has a patterned ticking noise that appears to emit from the power supply even when the machine is switched off. Does anyone hav…
I have a Sonnet SATA card in a 9600 along with an SSD from OWC. In a real world test, I got about 10MB/sec transfer rate going from one directory on the SSD int…
My first new/old Mac in years! Ended up paying too much ($55) but it was local, and has the rear door (though on second glance, the latch seems to be missing--o…
In Apple's official documentation and other documentation on the Internet say that the Xserve G5, which has eight memory slots, can take up to 16 gigs using ECC…
I received a dead iMac G5 yesterday. It is a 2004 17'' model. When I got it, the unit powered on and chimed, but when the backlight came on it flickered and the…
Greetings. I have a MacClassic that I"ve been working on. You can skip down to my specific questions in BOLD if you like. I had about 10 MacPlusses, a MacClassi…
I want to do an entire analog board recap for my Mac Classic II. For the PSU part (there is a big group of caps, and you can see a green stain around the board …
Well I have a Performa 475 here, got this one from jt. First time I flipped the switch I get a somewhat slow death chime. If I turn it off an on quick I get a h…
So, my good ol' temperamental Classic is at it again. After the time of success of booting from the ROM (hard drive is still dead and unconnected) to be able to…
I made a System 1.0 boot disk from a PowerBook 170 using a high density 1.44mb floppy diskette. It boots and works fine on my Macintosh 128k using an external A…
I did something stupid You know the type of fly back transformers that don't have the bleeder resistor? That caused a big problem for a motherboard that was wor…
As Supertramp said: "Dreamer... you know you are a dreamer"... Who knows... maybe there is still a copy of the holy disk somewhere?
I had finally gotten my old Mac 512Ke together after a mildly successful floppy reapir, and after about 1 hour of use it started going crackle crackle and then …
I just picked up a IIci system, my first acquisition in a while. According to the previous owner, it was working as of about two years ago. When I power it up n…
Hi! Unfortunately school took away the free time I had during the summer, but now I'm (almost) back, thanks to the Christmas holidays! I thought it would have b…
Hello all! I'm glad I could find a classic/ vintage Mac site that was still operational. I need some help. I just resurrected my beloved Mac IIcx. Got it used f…
Hello everyone. This is my first writing on this site. First, let me starting by letting you know that im not good in english, as you see. My question is someth…
I am going to start replacing the line filter cap (big round one) in TDK PSUs every time I do a recap. I see it is rated at 180uF 385WV..? What is a suitable re…
Just recently, I did some work for a client who paid me with what I thought was a Powerbook Duo 280c and a Duo MiniDock. Knowing the 280c was a 68k Mac (my firs…
Just received my FREE Duo 250 from BMOW and he said last time he used it, it worked fine. I grabbed a tested Duo charger off eBay, but I cannot for the life of …
hi, I have a PowerPC 6100 that worked fine up until a month ago. Now, when i turn it on, the HD initially spins (i.e. its getting power) but the screen doesn't …
Five or six years ago I made preventive recapping on both my LC & LCII before leaking appears... They were still working fine since (Pram battery never …
Has anyone managed to boot a 540c off of a PCMCIA Rev C. card cage on System 7.1.1? I'm trying right now, and I keep getting a bomb involving "System" - "Bad F-…
I know there are numerous discussion on the topic of discharging CRTs for compact Macs. however, I have found conflicting information regardin the propwer groun…
Yesterday I visited an auction from a small company that sold kitchens and went bankrupt. As it turned out, the owner well, to say the least, liked Apple Comput…
So I boot up my Mac SE/30 and 32 bit mode is off and its not seeing all of the memory installed. I select 32 bit mode, do a full shut down, reboot and its fine.…
So I found a discount electronics shop/surplus shop, with a huge selection of old and new stuff. This place is amazing, the people are nice, the prices are fair…
I got an email last week from my electronic surplus shop, I almost skipped over it, but I figured they may be having another sale or something. It turns out, th…